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gosub100 53 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP...

There was some shitty IDE years ago that would stop your keyboard input because it clogged the CPU with lookups for auto complete. It might have been eclipse or some other java monstrosity.

bitwize 53 days ago [–]

Visual Basic and VBA used to throw up syntax error dialogs if you cursored off an incomplete line.

It's why I don't like pair programming: done properly per XP principles, it's like having a human version of VB's intrusive error dialog.

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